Extensible belt or girdle.



PATENTED APR. 26, 1904.

' G. FARRELL.

EXTENSIBLE BELT on GIRDLE. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 20, 1903.

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WITNESSES:

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UNITED STATES ratented April 26, 19041.

PATENT OFF CE;

GEORGE FARRELL, OF VFEST SOMERVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO MJV. CARR 8: COMPANY, OF WEST SOMERVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS,

A FIRM.

EXTENSIBLE BELT OR GIRDLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 758,240, dated; April 26, 1904.

' Application filed June 20, 1903.

To all uhom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE FARRELL, of West Somerville, Middlesex county, Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Extensible Belts or Girdles,

of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description. I

My invention relates to improvements in belts and girdles, and especially to such devices which are of an ornamental character; and the object of my invention is to produce a belt or girdle which may be made in any suitable or approved design and which while having the characteristics of a solid or nonextensible girdle will yet be sufliciently elastic to fit waists of diiferent sizes and be extensible to a considerable extent.

Another object of my invention is to construct and arrange the extensible portions of the belt or girdle so that such portions will be hidden from view and will not, therefore,

- detract from the ornamental character of the device.

Still otherobjects of my invention are to make the device simple, strong, and durable.

With these ends in view my invention consists of certain features of construction and combinations of parts which will be hereinafter described and claimed. Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar figures of reference refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

Figure 1 is an inside elevation of the extensible portion of a girdle or belt, showing my improvements, the structure being shown in its contracted position. Fig. 2 is a view similar to Fig. l, but with the belt extended; and Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section on the line?) 3 of Fig. 2.

In carrying out my invention I use the ordinary body portion 10 of a belt orgirdle, which in the present instance happens to be in the form of parallel chains, but which obviously may be of almost any design. I use this body portion also, by preference, in con-- nection with the ordinary buckle plate 11, which is of an ornamental character and which Serial No. 162,344. (No model-) while it has no mechanical function in connection with the extensible features of the belt yet serves as a shield to hide the said extensible portions, and is therefore made in combination with the same. I

To the back of the plate 11 I secure a baseplate 12, and rigid on the inside of the baseplate is a second plate 12" which to all intents is-a part of the base-plate. Projecting inwardly from the base-plate, near the end portions thereof, are keepers 13, I through which slide the opposed plates 14, which have ears 15, connecting with the body portion 10 of the belt; but obviously this connection may be made in any usual manner. The inner ends of the slide-plates 13 have stops 16, which by striking the keepers 13 limit the outward movement of the slideplates. Each slideplate is connected with a pair of flexible extensible springs 17-, the opposite ends of the springs being secured to bosses 18 on the plate 12. By having the springs 17 overlapping, as described, and with the springs connecting the inner edge ofone slide-plate with an opposedportion of the base-plate the device is brought into very compact shape and the pull of the springs is very effective.

It will be seen that the tension of the springs serves to pull the slide-plates 14L together and so shorten the belt; but they can be pulled apart, if necessary, to make the belt longer. It will be observed also that this extensible feature of the belt is hidden behind the buckle-plate 11 and, further, that the details of the structure can be changed considerably .without affecting the principle of the invenmeans for limiting the movement of the slideplates, and extensible springs crossing each other longitudinally of the spring-plate, each set of springs being attached to the inner end of a slide-plate and to the supporting-plate as set forth.

In Witness whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

GEORGE FARRELL.

Witnesses:

FRANK A. TEELE, BESSIE M. L. WALLACE. 

